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    SubjectRe: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust
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    Hi,

    On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:44 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
    > On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:50:08 EDT, Arnaud Lacombe said:
    >
    >> Just thinking about it, but even if lawyers have been involved, this
    >> has been done, unless error of my part, behind closed doors, without
    >> any public records, so I'd tempted to ask "who paid those lawyers?",
    >> "what was the qualification of those lawyers?", "what was the interest
    >> of those lawyers?" and "what was the interest of those who paid the
    >> lawyers?".
    >
    > At least in the US, the answer to "what was the interest of those lawyers?" is
    > almost always "to represent the interests of their clients in a legally ethical
    > manner".  Intentional disregard for the client's interests can and does get you
    > disbarred.  Any lawyer who stuck in a clause that was contrary to the client's
    > interest would also be doing so against their own interest - lawyers can get
    > sued for malpractice or (as noted) even disbarrment.  So I don't think you need
    > to worry about some lawyer with a pro-Microsoft agenda secretly sticking in a
    > hidden phrase that's actually against Linux's interest. (In particular, it's
    > *really* hard to hide detrimental language in something as short and heavily
    > read as the Developer's Certificate of Origin).
    >
    > And if you *do* worry about that, you better also question whether the
    > people supplying tin foil are part of the conspiracy too.
    >
    I do not particularly worry about any of the question I wrote, I was
    merely raising unknown, from some excerpt of
    http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20101227144336645.

    - Arnaud
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